What Was Feed the Future?

Global food prices in 2006 began rapidly increasing due to a confluence of drought, high oil prices, and various macroeconomic factors that devastated low- and middle-income countries.

Global leaders gathered in response and by 2010 the Obama Administration’s comittments coalesed as the Feed the Future Initiative.

Unlike emergency humanitarian food relief, Feed the Future would focus on preventing the next food crisis, with a focus on food production

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Tea fields, Photo Credit: Jacob Patterson-Stein

Nutrition

And Poverty

Arid region in Kenya, Photo Credit: Jacob Patterson-Stein

19 “Target countries” were originally chosen.